ELON — Western Alamance linemen Michael Bell, Charlie Harper and Josh Pitts have been described as inseparable in high school.

They’ll take their act to Wingate.

“It’s like a combo package all through school,” Bell said. “That’s the crew.”

They blocked together for the Warriors’ offense, coming up through youth leagues together.

Bell, Harper and Pitts signed paperwork this week to attend Wingate as preferred walk-ons. They’ll have chances to earn scholarships for the Division II program, Western Alamance coach Jeff Snuffer said.

“They all have the ability to be successful,” Snuffer said. “They’ll have to get through that period when they’re going against players at another level.”

The trio attended multiple sessions of Wingate’s offensive line camp. That made the Western Alamance players familiar with the college and the Wingate coaching staff comfortable with the linemen.

Pitts, who played left guard as a senior after lining up as a left tackle as a junior, said it was comforting that the Wingate staff knows the Warriors by name because they were so frequent camp visitors.

Sticking together has its benefits.

“It has been a while,” Pitts said, “playing together since we were 9. That’s a big thing for me.”

Three-year starting quarterback Nigel Carlton of Western Alamance said he could count on the trio making it easier in front of him.

The linemen are so in touch with each other that they said they know how to motivate one another.

“We’ve always been together so long, it’s really a special thing,” said Harper, who was the team’s center the past two years.

Bell said: “It’s natural to get into each other. It’s to make us better. (These are) the boys I’ve been playing with forever.”

Bell is a two-time Times-News All-Region selection, moving from a right tackle in 2011 to left tackle in 2012. He said most of his interest came from Division III college programs.

Still, there might be some awkwardness in that Wingate is the Bulldogs — same nickname as Western Alamance’s rivals at Williams High School.